> > I have two ideas which I would like to get some feedback on.> > [...] The second is to implement intelligent pre-fetching for the web.> > > > You might be interested in looking at Venkata Padmanabhan's MS> > thesis from UC Berkeley, available as> > http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~padmanab/papers/masters-tr.ps> > Venkat used a trace-based simulation to investigate the potential> > performance of prefetching. Some of this work was done under my> > supervision.> > > > Apparently some people at Boston University have done similar work,> > since their CS technical Reports page> > http://cs-www.bu.edu/techreports/Home.html> > lists> > 95-011 > > Azer Bestavros ; Carlos Cunha.> > A Prefetching Protocol Using Client Speculation for the WWW,> > May 8, 1995.> > However, clicking on the link to this report yields: "Error 403> > Forbidden - by rule" and I have not been able to obtain a copy.> > > > -Jeff> > We've also been looking at Web prefetching, using server-side> speculation.> > References are listed on our Web pages:> > http://www.isi.edu/lowlat/> > Notably> "Defining 'High Speed Protocols, Five Challenges & and Example> That Survives the Challenges," J. Touch, IEEE JSAC Special> Issue on Applications Enabling Gigabit Networks, Vol. 13, No.> 5, June 1995, pp. 828-835.> > "An Experiment in Latency Reduction,", J. Touch and D. Farber> IEEE Infocom 1994.> > We found that server speculation would decrease latency by 2/3, to 0.7> RTT (yes, below the speed of light) by increasing the BW by 7x. Note> that this RTT is an average per page - it still takes 1 RTT for the> first page...> > Joe> ----------------------------------------------------------------------> Joe Touch touch@isi.edu> ISI / Project Leader, ATOMIC-2 http://www.isi.edu/~touch> USC / Research Assistant Prof. http://www.isi.edu/atomic2>